"The original idea of making money from a free operating system was dubious from the start," said a former Red Hat executive who asked not to be identified. "To make it work, if it could work at all, would have required highly skilled management.
My experience working for a Fortune 500 company
shows otherwise. Management for the most part gets in the way, wastes money left and right in political battles, and tries to make technical decisions for the rest of us. I reckon the best thing upper managment could for the company is get rid of the crufty middle management goons.
Had a few things to nitpick about. The RS6K in question actually has four (4) Power3-II processors, not PowerPC. The Power3 and PowerPC both share a subset of instructions, and the Power3 can emulate PowerPC instructions. (at least under AIX)
Also, if you are a large purchaser of RS6K equipment, you usually get a hefty discount around 40% which dramatically lowers the price to $33,600.
I have no problem with legal immigrants who work hard (regardless of their education) but at the bare minimum you must learn to speak and write English, I don't expect ya to be fluent but give it your best.
What annoys me to no end is calling my Electricity provider and having to press "1" to continue in English. When my relatives came over from Italy at the beginning of the century they didn't have that luxury, they adapted just like all the other immigrants.
Instead of Oracle blaming Sun who blames BEA, you'll have the websphere group blaming the DB2 group who blames the AIX group within IBM. Unless you're a really big IBM customer (read: have a mainframe or two) forget about getting it resolved instantly.
I can attest to this as well. My company is a massive IBM shop (a few years ago IBM supplied us *everything*, from the desktops to the servers to the mainframes, even the networking equipment) but we have learned to diversify lately. We had a need for an Electronic Documentation Management System with near real-time retrieval. We went with the "best of the worst", which in this case turned out to be Cimage from Access Corp. As for the hardware, being an IBM shop, we went with an RS/6000 H70 with an SSA drawer and an 3995 C64 Optical Jukebox Library. For managing the images, we were to use ADSM/HSM.
Not a bad little setup, RS/6000 hardware for the most part is pretty damn good. AIX has a lot of features you just have to love (LVM, mksysb, smit, etc) but features that make you cringe (ODM, Print Subsystem, etc). The RS/6000 piece works great, we just have problems with the Jukebox and ADSM/HSM. According to IBM documentation, each Magneto-Optical drive can write ~2MB/sec. With ADSM/HSM, we see 180KB/sec, which is about as fast as a floppy drive. With ADSM/HSM, data can only be written out to the library one drive at a time so if you have 40GB of images you need to migrate off, it tends to take some time. Since the Jukebox is a library, you need software to manage it so we couldn't just use tar or dd to see if the problem lie with ADSM/HSM.
Being the large customer that we are (we have three mainframes mind you), we figured that having this problem ironed out would be a cinch. We were wrong. We had our on-site customer rep with us while we called up IBM support. The finger pointing began. AIX support claimed they knew nothing about ADSM/HSM nor had they ever seen an Optical Jukebox before. ADSM support was not familiar with AIX nor with Optical Jukeboxes. The Optical Jukebox folks were not familiar with AIX nor with ADSM/HSM. No one took responsibility even though it was an IBM product! We had our rep bump the problem up through the chain of command to no avail. Eventually we got an answer back. "Since ADSM/HSM and the Jukebox library work together, this is a performance problem and as such you will need to speak with our Consulting Group." Which undoubtedly would cost us disco dollars. Veritas has an HSM product but it is not available on AIX (to my knowledge).
If possible see if the vendor can demo the application on the plaform/hardware you are planning to buy. Go over it with a fine tooth comb and make sure every base is covered. If we would have had the opportunity, we might have switched to Solaris from the get go.
I subscribe to the idea that upgrades are junk on pretty much every type of operating system: AIX, HPUX, Linux, and even Windoze.
I've been burned in the past by failed upgrades, so I'd rather just backup my critical files (usually/etc and/home) to something safe and do a full-blown install. Sure its a hassle, but I don't have to worry about garbage that still may be lingering around from the previous release plus if something were to go wrong, I can do a reinstall with little worry.
The nice thing about AIX, BTW, is the ability to make a snapshot of the system (rootvg at least) and dump it to tape with mksysb. If for any reason the upgrade goes wrong (compatability reasons etc), boot off the tape and you are back in business. I sure wish Solaris and Linux had this.
I want a case that is infintely expandable. Need more space? Just add another section. Need another power supply?, just tack one on. There would be high CFM fans that just snap in, an the internals would be optimized for efficient airflow. Fans would be on a different circuit and there would be a plethora of molex connectors everywhere.
My case at the moment is a Supermicro SC750A (which is fairly large) and I have already run out of space. I have three SCSI hard drives, a cd-rom, a burner, and about 8 different fans. Lord only knows how many Y power cables I have and the cable situation is a complete mess.
Anyone out there that shares my interest in making a extremely customizable case (an erector set of sorts)?
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As other people have mentioned, a plastic sheath around the disc would be ideal. A good example of the sheath would be the type used on 5.2GB Magneto Opticals. Basically a gigantic floppy disk cover.
Not only would this reduce scratches, but dust and fingerprints would be minimized as well.
If you have a Hitachi SuperScan Elite 751, like I do, then the.22 dot pitch is actually the *horizontal* dot pitch. The true dot pitch is close to.25 or.26
That does not work so well. On my PPro 200, I mounted a CD image and I was able to get 150K/s off of it thru my LAN. With normal files I was getting close to 1MB/s. With multiple accesses the transfer rate drops quite a bit. Maybe I was doing something wrong.
Ok, I'm getting sick and tired of people saying you can buy an Alpha 600MHz setup for the price of a P3. I want just a motherboard and chip, nothing else, and I want to buy one, not a 10 pack. Please give a URL of a company that is in the US. If such a thing exists, I would be suprised.
Now that IBM is Linux happy, it would be nice if they assisted the OSS community in making a decent read/write implementation for Linux. I wouldn't mind having my root filesystem as HPFS. Don't know if this would work or not, but it would help Linux get an "enterprise" file system a lot faster.
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"The original idea of making money from a free operating
system was dubious from the start," said a former Red Hat
executive who asked not to be identified. "To make it work,
if it could work at all, would have required highly skilled
management.
My experience working for a Fortune 500 company shows
otherwise. Management for the most part gets in the way,
wastes money left and right in political battles, and tries to
make technical decisions for the rest of us. I reckon the best
thing upper managment could for the company is get rid of
the crufty middle management goons.
Had a few things to nitpick about. The RS6K in question actually has four
(4) Power3-II processors, not PowerPC. The Power3 and PowerPC
both share a subset of instructions, and the Power3 can emulate PowerPC
instructions. (at least under AIX)
Also, if you are a large purchaser of RS6K equipment, you usually get a
hefty discount around 40% which dramatically lowers the price to $33,600.
I have no problem with legal immigrants who work hard (regardless of their education) but at the bare minimum you must learn to speak and write English, I don't expect ya to be fluent but give it your best.
What annoys me to no end is calling my Electricity provider and having to press "1" to continue in English. When my relatives came over from Italy at the beginning of the century they didn't have that luxury, they adapted just like all the other immigrants.
Instead of Oracle blaming Sun who blames BEA, you'll have the websphere group blaming the DB2 group who blames the AIX group within IBM. Unless you're a really big IBM customer (read: have a mainframe or two) forget about getting it resolved instantly.
I can attest to this as well. My company is a massive IBM shop (a few years ago IBM supplied us *everything*, from the desktops to the servers to the mainframes, even the networking equipment) but we have learned to diversify lately. We had a need for an Electronic Documentation Management System with near real-time retrieval. We went with the "best of the worst", which in this case turned out to be Cimage from Access Corp. As for the hardware, being an IBM shop, we went with an RS/6000 H70 with an SSA drawer and an 3995 C64 Optical Jukebox Library. For managing the images, we were to use ADSM/HSM.
Not a bad little setup, RS/6000 hardware for the most part is pretty damn good. AIX has a lot of features you just have to love (LVM, mksysb, smit, etc) but features that make you cringe (ODM, Print Subsystem, etc). The RS/6000 piece works great, we just have problems with the Jukebox and ADSM/HSM. According to IBM documentation, each Magneto-Optical drive can write ~2MB/sec. With ADSM/HSM, we see 180KB/sec, which is about as fast as a floppy drive. With ADSM/HSM, data can only be written out to the library one drive at a time so if you have 40GB of images you need to migrate off, it tends to take some time. Since the Jukebox is a library, you need software to manage it so we couldn't just use tar or dd to see if the problem lie with ADSM/HSM.
Being the large customer that we are (we have three mainframes mind you), we figured that having this problem ironed out would be a cinch. We were wrong. We had our on-site customer rep with us while we called up IBM support. The finger pointing began. AIX support claimed they knew nothing about ADSM/HSM nor had they ever seen an Optical Jukebox before. ADSM support was not familiar with AIX nor with Optical Jukeboxes. The Optical Jukebox folks were not familiar with AIX nor with ADSM/HSM. No one took responsibility even though it was an IBM product! We had our rep bump the problem up through the chain of command to no avail. Eventually we got an answer back. "Since ADSM/HSM and the Jukebox library work together, this is a performance problem and as such you will need to speak with our Consulting Group." Which undoubtedly would cost us disco dollars. Veritas has an HSM product but it is not available on AIX (to my knowledge).
If possible see if the vendor can demo the application on the plaform/hardware you are planning to buy. Go over it with a fine tooth comb and make sure every base is covered. If we would have had the opportunity, we might have switched to Solaris from the get go.
Let's not forget about Vietnam. Thanks to the French, untold Americans lost their lives cleaning up after you motherfuckers.
Seems like a ongoing theme: the French pussy out at the start of a conflict and the Americans come in and finish the job.
What I really want is the ability to see infrared and ultraviolet via contact lenses, on demand of course.
I subscribe to the idea that upgrades are junk on pretty much every type of operating system: AIX, HPUX, Linux, and even Windoze.
/etc and /home) to something safe and do a full-blown install. Sure its a hassle, but I don't have to worry about garbage that still may be lingering around from the previous release plus if something were to go wrong, I can do a reinstall with little worry.
I've been burned in the past by failed upgrades, so I'd rather just backup my critical files (usually
The nice thing about AIX, BTW, is the ability to make a snapshot of the system (rootvg at least) and dump it to tape with mksysb. If for any reason the upgrade goes wrong (compatability reasons etc), boot off the tape and you are back in business. I sure wish Solaris and Linux had this.
I want a case that is infintely expandable. Need more space? Just add another section. Need another power supply?, just tack one on. There would be high CFM fans that just snap in, an the internals would be optimized for efficient airflow. Fans would be on a different circuit and there would be a plethora of molex connectors everywhere.
My case at the moment is a Supermicro SC750A (which is fairly large) and I have already run out of space. I have three SCSI hard drives, a cd-rom, a burner, and about 8 different fans. Lord only knows how many Y power cables I have and the cable situation is a complete mess.
Anyone out there that shares my interest in making a extremely customizable case (an erector set of sorts)?
As other people have mentioned, a plastic sheath around the disc would be ideal. A good example of the sheath would be the type used on 5.2GB Magneto Opticals. Basically a gigantic floppy disk cover.
Not only would this reduce scratches, but dust and fingerprints would be minimized as well.
I kinda wish DVD's had such a cover.
If you have a Hitachi SuperScan Elite 751, like I do, then the .22 dot pitch is actually the *horizontal* dot pitch. The true dot pitch is close to .25 or .26
That does not work so well. On my PPro 200, I mounted a CD image and I was able to get 150K/s
off of it thru my LAN. With normal files I was getting close to 1MB/s. With multiple accesses the transfer rate drops quite a bit. Maybe I was doing something wrong.
Ok, I'm getting sick and tired of people saying you can buy an Alpha 600MHz setup for the price of a P3. I want just a motherboard and chip, nothing else, and I want to buy one, not a 10 pack. Please give a URL of a company that is in the US. If such a thing exists, I would be suprised.
Ha, Texas has the friendliest drivers. How can prune-pickers know how to drive when there are constant traffic slowdowns?
Now that IBM is Linux happy, it would be nice if they assisted the OSS community in making a decent read/write implementation for Linux. I wouldn't mind having my root filesystem as HPFS. Don't know if this would work or not, but it would help Linux get an "enterprise" file system a lot faster.